Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,385,255 to it, the largest being ROSS R & SARA G RHOADS FOUNDATION ($3,726,333). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $28M
What United Way of the Capital Region does
Mission
United Way of the Capital Region (United Way) is governed by a volunteer board of directors and works year-round to improve lives in counties of Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry, Pennsylvania. United Way accomplishes this by identifying the most pressing community needs, finding solutions to those needs and demonstrating how these solutions are making a difference. United Way of the Capital Region focuses on health, education, income and basic needs and helps support more than 70 programs and services to create solutions to the needs in our community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Impact and Fund Distribution program performs a periodic evaluation of community needs and engages community volunteers, experts in the community and program partners to determine how to distribute funds to address priority needs in the community, including basic needs in the areas of; food insecurity, domestic violence, emergency shelter, referrals to human services and case management.
$7,093,653 spentof which $1,280,076 as grants78% of program spendingThe Ready for School, Ready to Succeed program prepares children academically and socially for kindergarten, by engaging families and children with school readiness workshops, connecting families to affordable preschool programs and early intervention support services, and improving reading proficiency of program participants in the capital region.
$801,009 spent9% of program spendingThe Contact to Care program employs community health workers to assist un- and under-insured individuals in navigating the health care system, overcoming barriers to care and enrolling in an insurance program. Contact to Care helps these individuals establish a primary medical home and connect to providers for dental, vision, and any necessary behavioral health services in order to decrease emergency room usage for non-urgent needs by program participants.
$758,504 spent8% of program spendingThe Road to Success program employs case managers to assist the un- and under-employed obtain and keep jobs where they can advance to earn a living wage. Program services include preparing unemployed individuals for employment, helping them secure a job and providing support during their first year of employment and providing budget counseling to help them become financially self-sufficient. Additionally, services include helping employed individuals advance in the workplace through job training, education opportunities and expansion of skills. Road to Success also connects active program participants to needed support services until they can support their families independently.
$397,053 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,050,219.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $30M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 5% · 2026 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Timothy Fatzinger
President & CEO
Board chair
Brian Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.9M.
21 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.4M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Foundation of the Capital Region); $184k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of the Capital Region). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 39% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 43 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 846 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- United Way Foundation of the Capital Region · exempt
- United Way Foundation of the Capital Region · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION?
- UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,385,255 to it, the largest being ROSS R & SARA G RHOADS FOUNDATION ($3,726,333). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $12,385,255 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION?
- ROSS R & SARA G RHOADS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,726,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 83 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing